Serial ATA [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA function. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

SATA Controller Mode Option [Enhanced]

Allows selection of the Serial ATA operation mode depending on the operating system (OS) that you installed. When you set this item to Enhanced Mode, Serial ATA and Parallel ATA devices are autodetected and placed in native IDE mode. Set to Enhanced Mode if you are using native OS, such as Windows® 2000/XP. When you set this item to Compatible Mode, Serial ATA and Parallel ATA devices are autodetected and placed in legacy mode. Configuration options: [Compatible] [Enhanced]

The following items appear only if you set the SATA Controller Mode Option item to [Enhanced].

SATA RAID Enable [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA RAID function. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

SATA AHCI Enable [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA AHCI function. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

• AHCI mode item will support only under Windows environment.

Due to the driver limitation, you will not find any SATA driver if you install Fedora core 4.

ASUS TS500-E4

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